Board game apparatus wherein advancement of pieces is controlled by movements of other pieces



Sept. 30, 1969 H. G BOARD GAME APPARATUS WHERBIN 1 GONTROLLBD BYMOVBMENTS OP OTHER PIECES F11ed March 28. 1966 colof felations ofplacenlentS P, and the quantitative va1 ueS v and arrangeInents thereof,can all be aS above de ScTibed. Hovvevef, in fhe forn1 novV UnderconSidefation, the color Sequence consists of siX Colors and the gaIneiS therefofe lin1ited to six players, but it may be angmented fof theacconInodation of Inofe pefsonS SiIn ly by pro viding n1ofe than Sixboafds and Inofe than siX pTincipalS of objectS, eqllaHy, as Inay bedesired, To this end, each raceway R thfough R iS cafTied upon asepafate boaTd B thfoUgh B feSpectively, and each of Said facewayS is acontinUouS loop, The advantage of this pfovision of facevVayS aSindividual looped TaceWays is that fhere iS an unobvionS incfeaSe in theultiIIlate nUInber of fedeteTnlinafe operationS, as foHoWS= Fofinstance, the race way R (aS Well aS all otheT TaceWayS) is a continuouSloop So aS to expoSe any one of tho siX color placeInentS P to beSelected as the coInInonceInent point. It iS fo be Under- Stood that inplace of color diStinctions each placeInent P can be ideI1tifiable aS afigLlrative of objective TepTesen tation SL1ch aS a fafn^l yard aniInal(pig, cow, hen, hofSe, etc.) or the placeInents can bo identined aSdiStinguishable facing autOS ()f diffefent Inanufactufo. Thus, inaccofdance vVith the invention, InakefS through X are proVided, one foreach boafd B thfough B and theSe n1aTl(eTS X aTe arbitfafily placed upondiIfefent placements P of the Taceways on the several boards in ofdef toestabliSh Start and niSh lines of varying potenfial in tho cofTespondingTacewayS. It iS to be undefstood that thefe can be an unliIT1itednuInbef of boaTdS played SiInultaneonSly when eIn loying thiS fofIn ofthe invention,

In playing the gane aS depicted, one playef arbiffarily Inoves hisobject a nunlber of placen1ents one to thTee, for eXaInple the playef atboaTd B Inoves tWo placeInentS (doted line object A and the gan1e iSinifiated to opefate With a predeterIninod definite role of action asfollows= AS ShovVn, ofange obiecf A iS upon a green laceInent P of thevalue Z, in which caSe gTeen object A n1oveS two placeInentS. (}feenobiect iS now upon a blue place- Inent of the value 1, in Which caSeblue object A n1oves one plaCeInent (dotted line objecf Blue object A iSnow Upon a bIue placeInent P of the value Z, in which case blue obiect Aagain InovoS tvVo placofnents (Solid line obiect A Blue object A iS nowupon an oTange placenlent 1 of the value 3, in Which caSe ofange obiectz n1oveS three placen1ents (Solid lino obiect A ofange object Z iS nownpon an ofange placeIIlent of the value 3, in Which caSe orange obiectagain moveS thfee place- InentS (not shown) and so on untiI opefation ofthe gaIne iS continued to itS fI1111lInent. Nofe, howovef, that in theSix playS juSt fecited only thfee obiectS have moved, the other thfeeobiects Temaioing at their aTbitfaTHy Selected Stafts awaiting difectionfToIn the alfeady Inoving objectS.

FTon1 the fofegoing it vvin be appafent that I have pfovided anapparently competitive game wherein there is a definifo rIlle of actionvvhich iS deterInined by the afbiffaTy Selective aTfangeInent ofcooPeTatively felated ele Inents. The facfoTS which control thepfedetern1ination of the gaIIle aTe the nun1erous possible affangen1entSof the obiectS A relative to the racewayS R. FuTther, the initial n1oveof any ono obiect A then predeteTo1ines the I11ti- Inate Winnef, so tospeak, fhe opeTation of the gafne being abSolute in its deteTIninationof said Winnef. Coffelated to the pfedetefn1inate opofation of the gaIneis the exefciSe fof fhoSe peTSons vvho are knovvledgeable in calculatingthe outcoIne of the outwardly appaTent Inechanics in volved, since theentire operation of the game iS open upon its face vVifh opefationalfesults that are unobviouS.

fIaving deScfibed Iny invention, I claifn= 1. Apparatus for playingcontfoHed gan1e having pTedetefIninate TesultS U on opeTation to itSfulfillIIlent and dependent upon inifial Selection of variables, andinclllding= a plorality of individual boafdS; idenfical loop-ShapedracewayS applied to each board and each coInpfiSed of a SefieS ofindividuaHy identiHable placeInentS; each placenent being of a certainqllaIltifative value leSS than the nUTnber of placen1ents in theTacevVay a like plurality of distingUiShably identifiable objeCtS andeach fo1 Inovable placen1ent and travel afoond a faCevvay each placeTnent being pfovided With one of a gfoup of diffefent identifyingindicia equal in nombef to the numbef of boardS and each cofrespondingto a CliSting11ishing indicia appHed to a diffefent one of the obiectSand a Inafkef for each board to be arbitTarily placed Ilpon any one Se-1ected placement of the raceway Whefeby afbitTaTy place- Inent of anyone of said disfinguiShably identifiable ob jectS at the Said Inafkef oneach Tacevvay, coupled vvith adVancenlent of any one of SaiddistinguiShably idenfifiable objecfS onto an afbitTarily Selectedplacenlenf initiates an absolute Tule of action that pTedefefInines thefelative rate of travel of Said objectS along Said TaoevVayS vvhen eachof Said objeCtS iS adVanced upon the engagenlent of its Te lated andindividLlally identiHable placementS by any othef object, the extent ofSuch advance being deter1ined by the qnantitative valneS of theplaceITlontS So engaged.

Z. The apparatUS aS Set fofth in claiII1 1 vvheTein: the indicia withxVhich the placeInentS aTe pTovided and vvhich afe appHed to the objectSaTe diStinguiShable coloTs.

34 The appafatus aS Set fofth in claim 1 Wherein= the indicia vvfthVvhich fhe placementS are pfovided and vvhich aro applied to the obiectSare diStingUiShable coloTs, a11d the colofS of the placeInentS arerepetitively aTTanged in like SucceSSive gToupS iI1 each facevVay.

efefences Cffed UNITED STATES PATENTS 673,080 4/1901 Hn1 Z731341,09Z,642 4/1914 GibSon 273134 3,170,595 Z/1965 Nielsen 273134 FoREIGNPATENTS 480,175 2/1938 Gfeat BTitain.

DELBERT B. LowE, PrimaT ExaIniner U.S. cL XlR. Z73136

